What is SPACE: 1999?
It's a straight drama combined with "2001: A Space Odyssey"-like sci-fi, the military series, the horror genre and a touch of philosophy (see Man's initiatory quest) and theology (also see "Noah's Ark").
Why do I like SPACE: 1999?
I like it for its spine-chilling seriousness (season one, of course), claustrophobic and oppressive mood because there are a lot of cold silent scenes (the suffocating void of the universe). I like it for the music and sound effects orientation that are so close to the series that they are like a second person, thanks to maestro Barry Gray, Vic Elms, Alan Willis, Jim Sullivan and the whole Chappell Recorded Music Library. I like it for Lee H. Katzin who directed two of the best episodes ("Breakaway" and "Black Sun") and he is also well-known for his work as a 1st AD in "The Outer Limits" sci-fi anthology. I like it for Martin Landau as the tough-as-nails Commander Koenig whose TV credits in the 1960's are tremendous ("The Twilight Zone", "The Outer Limits", "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", "The Wild Wild West", "Mission: Impossible"). "Space: 1999" has the best opening credits of the 1970's. I always like watching Martin Landau and Barbara Bain turning round on themselves with a white and black background. But the aspect which strikes me the most is the confrontation between the individual and the communauty inside moon base Alpha, in other words, when a stranger-character or a character that became a stranger enters and changes the habits of Alphans in: "Force of Life", "End of Eternity", "The Troubled Spirit", "The Testament of Arkadia". The typical plot that I always enjoy is when Koenig is all alone against everybody in: "Guardian of Piri" and "Collision Course". There is one episode that scared me to death when I was a kid: "Force of Life". As a photographer, I always be impressed by the use of the fish eye lens in order to create a distorted and insane mood: a very Pop-Expressionist style. The character of paranoid Anton Zoref is powerful. One of the rare "Space: 1999" episode which frankly ventures into horror, without forgetting "End of Eternity" and "The Troubled Spirit". Moreover, I like watching Professor Victor Bergman always speculating on everything and the metaphysical question which concludes each episode.
It's a straight drama combined with "2001: A Space Odyssey"-like sci-fi, the military series, the horror genre and a touch of philosophy (see Man's initiatory quest) and theology (also see "Noah's Ark").
Why do I like SPACE: 1999?
I like it for its spine-chilling seriousness (season one, of course), claustrophobic and oppressive mood because there are a lot of cold silent scenes (the suffocating void of the universe). I like it for the music and sound effects orientation that are so close to the series that they are like a second person, thanks to maestro Barry Gray, Vic Elms, Alan Willis, Jim Sullivan and the whole Chappell Recorded Music Library. I like it for Lee H. Katzin who directed two of the best episodes ("Breakaway" and "Black Sun") and he is also well-known for his work as a 1st AD in "The Outer Limits" sci-fi anthology. I like it for Martin Landau as the tough-as-nails Commander Koenig whose TV credits in the 1960's are tremendous ("The Twilight Zone", "The Outer Limits", "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", "The Wild Wild West", "Mission: Impossible"). "Space: 1999" has the best opening credits of the 1970's. I always like watching Martin Landau and Barbara Bain turning round on themselves with a white and black background. But the aspect which strikes me the most is the confrontation between the individual and the communauty inside moon base Alpha, in other words, when a stranger-character or a character that became a stranger enters and changes the habits of Alphans in: "Force of Life", "End of Eternity", "The Troubled Spirit", "The Testament of Arkadia". The typical plot that I always enjoy is when Koenig is all alone against everybody in: "Guardian of Piri" and "Collision Course". There is one episode that scared me to death when I was a kid: "Force of Life". As a photographer, I always be impressed by the use of the fish eye lens in order to create a distorted and insane mood: a very Pop-Expressionist style. The character of paranoid Anton Zoref is powerful. One of the rare "Space: 1999" episode which frankly ventures into horror, without forgetting "End of Eternity" and "The Troubled Spirit". Moreover, I like watching Professor Victor Bergman always speculating on everything and the metaphysical question which concludes each episode.